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Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Canadian Temper: A Warning to America? Or a warning to Canadians?

Canadians
have long thought of themselves as morally superior to the supposedly
vulgar and abrasive Americans. According to the self-justifying Canadian
mythos, we embody a more enlightened and humane outlook on the world.
In addition to oil, maple syrup, and lumber, our most valuable export --
our gift, we imagine, to our southern neighbors -- is our vision of a
sustainable and irenic future. Let us examine the most current
incarnation of that vision.Canada
is essentially a socialist country, closer to the increasingly decrepit
European welfare and statist paradigm than to the (now faltering)
classic American model of individual self-reliance. Canada instituted
social programs like state-funded medicine relying on major tax hikes
long before it became an issue in the U.S., and gambled on
multiculturalism as a viable national project, in effect, as a kind of
political eschatology. There is no question that the Canadian temper has
always been more politically Arcadian than the American.The
current refugee question in particular has become a pivotal and
collective expression of this temper, with citizens opening their
wallets, hearts, and homes to a migratory influx from the Islamic world.
Our self-congratulatory generosity is amply demonstrated in the
writings of celebrated Constitutional lawyer Julius Grey. Pontificating
in the Montreal Gazette,
Grey urges the welcoming of thousands of Syrian migrants as we proceed
“to create a society which has, on the one hand, citizens of myriad
origins and, on the other, no barriers between them.”The
problem that Grey refuses to confront or even identify is that
immigrants and refugees from historically backward, theocratic,
anti-Semitic, Sharia-dominated, and terror-sponsoring nations are
precisely the ones who are creating “barriers,” such as purpose-built
ghettos, no-go zones, closed neighborhoods, special privileges and
spaces, an atmosphere of threat, and who have no interest in
Western-style “individual autonomy and freedom” -- Grey’s chosen
vocabulary. Grey is the lawyer
for the Muslim-friendly socialist New Democratic Party, but there is
not much sunlight between the NDP and the governing Muslim-friendly
Liberal Party.Indeed,
in the October 2015 Federal election the Liberals, the NDP and the
splinter, reactionary-left Greens ran between them a total of 23 Muslim candidates (the leftist/sovereignist Bloc Québécois fielded two Muslim candidates,
raising the combined total to 25 Muslim hopefuls), representing
approximately 7 per cent of available parliamentary seats, over twice
the Islamic percentage of the population. (The ousted Conservatives fielded only four Muslims.) In the end, the combined electoral seats
won by the four left-leaning parties, the Liberals, NDP, Bloc and
Greens, clocked in at 71 per cent; the center-right Conservatives polled
just 29 per cent. This is the face of Canada today.During
the election campaign, Islam became a prominent issue, with Liberal PM
Justin Trudeau claiming that there was no place in his Canada for the
previous Conservative government’s “divisive” Islamophobia and
exaggerated concern for national security. In his victory speech,
Trudeau uttered the inevitable pieties à la Obama: “We beat fear with
hope, we beat cynicism with hard work. We beat negative, divisive
politics with a positive vision that brings Canadians together.” To a
Muslim woman wearing a hijab, he promised “a government that believes
deeply in the diversity of this country.”A
perverse illustration of this stupefying attitude comes from the Bank
of Nova Scotia (commonly known as Scotiabank), which has welcomed the
migrant onslaught with its Welcome Syrians program.
(The original webpage featuring large print and colorful graphics now
seems to have been scrubbed.) Canada’s third largest bank is offering
every Syrian a hundred dollar gift deposit, a $2000 limit unsecured
credit card, a free safety deposit box for one year and a $50 unsecured
overdraft. Customers who bank at the Scotia and pay monthly fees to
maintain their accounts have good reason to feel resentful -- unless, of
course, they happen to be migrant sympathizers and soft on Islam.These
“Syrians,” not all of whom are Syrians and some of whom are almost
surely ISIS jihadists, receive housing, benefits, and gifts without
having contributed an iota to the nation’s economy; indeed, they will be
a limitless drain on our resources.The $1.2 billion cost of bringing in these refugees is only the beginning of our fiscal woes. Quoted by the CBC, coordinator Carl Nicholson said
“many factors have made the task of housing
government-assisted refugees more difficult, including the larger-than
expected size of some families that have arrived.” The accompanying
photo shows a couple with six toddlers. No wonder the Liberals’ shopworn
immigration minister John McCallum has solicited
the business community for donations in the amount of $50 million. “I
would encourage all Canadians, companies, individuals, communities,
to continue to support the effort because we are entering a critical
phase,” he said. Darn right on the latter score.My
parents and grandparents, fleeing starving, war-torn Ukraine, worked to
the bone to earn a living while contributing through taxes to the
national welfare. Many Canadians share the same history, yet they are
expected to receive and bankroll a large number of migrants who will
take advantage of the innumerable perks that our forebears, who fled
famine and civil war and who helped build this country, had never
enjoyed or even considered their due.Richard Butrick cogently argues in an important article for American Thinker that
immigrants who came to America in the 19th and early 20th centuries
“knew they had to work hard to survive,” at the same time contributing
to the nation’s commercial, industrial, and scientific advances.
“Immigrants today,” he continues, “know the U.S. is a fail-safe
environment,” where they are subsidized and coddled. The so-called
“re-energizing” immigration narrative has been superseded by, let’s say,
a parasitical model based on muddled sentimentality and false
calculations, which Canada has bought into without sober forethought. A
country built on welfare migrants is not a country built on hardworking
immigrants.There
are some signs that the “Syrian Covenant” is becoming more complicated
than originally envisaged, as the initial euphoria for the migrants
seems to be waning under an unforgiving reality. I have heard that
families that have gloatingly affirmed their “Canadian values” and
freely taken Syrians into their homes are petitioning their government
for financial help. The City of Ottawa, Canada’s capital, has called for a pause
to its hospitality for lack of housing, facilities and funds. Toronto,
Vancouver, and Halifax have also asked for a hiatus. The bloom is
starting to come off the rose -- and the hue off the rose-colored
glasses -- for many of these fallow enthusiasts. But with further
government subventions and the media propaganda blitz saturating what
remains of the Canadian mind, the early stages of skepticism and
reluctance will probably lead to nothing much.This
is how we do things in Canada. We throw out a Conservative government
-- itself an anomaly in our political landscape -- that steered us
safely through the devastating market crash of 2007/8, and objected to
Islamic face coverings in citizenship swearing-in ceremonies and to the
acceptance of “barbaric” practices in the cultural habits of these new
citizens -- and bring in a Liberal administration dedicated to
increasing the national debt and gradually submerging the country in an
effluvium of Muslim migrants and refugees.The
U.S. is clearly heading in the same direction with its national debt
swelling exponentially and the inpouring of unvetted “Syrian” migrants
exacerbating an already problematic Islamic infiltration. In effect,
it’s the same set of cultural attributes, a big spending mentality and
an open door policy, of which Canada has long been a shining exemplar.
This is why the coming election is perhaps the most critical in U.S.
history. A Democrat administration under Billary or Bernie would close
the gap between our two countries dramatically. And this is why the
candidacies of Donald Trump, for all his flaws, and of the Cruzio
amalgam despite the media-generated flap over their eligibility, may
determine whether America can return to some degree of sanity and a
semblance of its former vitality -- or, heaven forfend, become Canada
South.SOURCE.

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Makes for a good read, don't agree with everything, not all Canadian subscribe to his definition, actually the majority doesn't. We think of ourselves Morally superior to our cousins of the south? I don't know anyone outside of those who live in a bubble who think that way.

The problem here, as in America, the people's voice is now overshadowed by the media and the elitist, they claim to speak for us, all the while been out of touch with reality.

Canadians prefer to be North Americans, the establishment, or the elitist wants us to be like Sweden, the 2 ideology will clash, it's inevitable.

Fortunately, we can see the warnings by what's happening in Europe, and we have an understanding of the repercussion if we bring that here, hopefully we are smarter than what the elitists thinks of us.

As for the warning to America, it also applies to Canadians. If not more so.